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Maya pendant in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Map showing the locations of some of the main jade, obsidian and serpentine sources in Mesoamerica. The archaeological search for the Mesoamerican jade sources, which were largely lost at the time of the Maya collapse, began in 1799 when Alexander von Humboldt started his geological research in the New World.
Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica. Cambridge World Archaeology. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-78882-3. OCLC 68965709. Scott, Sue (2000). "Figurines, Terracotta". In Evans, Susan (ed.). Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America. Taylor & Francis. p. 266. ISBN 9780815308874
Restored Teotihuacan architecture showing typical Mesoamerican use of red paint complemented on gold and jade decoration upon marble and granite Mask with a necklace with 55 beads and pendant; serpentine inlaid with amazonite , turquoise, shell, coral and obsidian , 8 in. H, National Museum of Anthropology
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI). Tate, Carolyn E. (2007). "La Venta and a Feminine Shamanic Tradition in Formative Mesoamerica". Acta Americana. 15 (2): 5– 30. Tate, Carolyn E. (2008). "Landscape and a visual narrative of creation and origin at the Olmec ceremonial center of La Venta". In John Edward ...
The Olmecs produced jade figurines, and created heavy-featured, colossal heads, up to 2 meters (6.6 ft) high, that still stand mysteriously in the landscape. The Mesoamerican tradition of building large ceremonial centres appears to have begun under the Olmecs. During the Classic period the dominant civilization was the Maya.
The Mask of Pakal is a funerary jade mask found in the tomb of the Mayan king, K’inich Janaab’ Pakal inside the Temple of the Inscriptions at the Maya city of Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico. Considered a master piece of Mesoamerican and Maya art , the mask is made with over 346 green jade stone fragments, the eyes are made with shell, nacre ...